Comment by liendolucas
3 years ago
I got very similar thoughts... I think the most promising future of this tech are simulations of all kinds: let's virtually open a human body and study it, let's disassemble an engine to see how each part works, let's project how a city should be wise-designed to avoid transport issues, etc.
Even most of these things can be also appreciated using regular tech. Why should Apple succeed when most of other companies have not succeeded (Occulus, Hololens, HTC Vive)? Putting aside not so stunning technology, people actually didn't get engaged with the tech so much.
I had the opportunity to use a version of the Occulus some years ago and found them pretty impressive, but even though at the time I saw it like a cool gadget only to be enjoyed for a very limited amount of time.
> Why should Apple succeed when most of other companies have not succeeded (Occulus, Hololens, HTC Vive)?
Because it is Apple and has shown success (excellent execution) where others don't? How can Apple make chips that astonish incumbents such as Intel without having their own fab? How can they run a real OS in iPhone 1 where Linux existed for long?
Surely Apple can fail as other companies do but I they can estimate a market potential with real data.